Text Visual Video / Charles Moulton

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Charles Moulton

We get in the car and take turns driving until dawn. We need to know that the world won’t be stolen while we’re sleeping. In the darkness, the trees have gone bare from grieving. Some are bent over. Others are trembling. They have loved us and are dying. Janice drifts off and I’m alone behind the wheel listening to their sweet, broken singing. They have always known that the world is vanishing. Yet even as they are dying…..raise their voices in celebration. I have promised to call out for them when they are gone. To search for them in the underworld and hold them in my arms as they have held me. I memorize each tree, each branch, each leaf, each trunk worn smooth with caring. I’ll know their names by heart when we meet in the garden of everything and nothing.

Charles Moulton – June, 2017

Charles Moulton is an award-winning Choreographer, Visual Artist and Writer living in Oakland, California. He has created works on dance companies all over the world and is particularly known for his signature work Ball Passing which can be performed by dancers and non-dancers alike. His visual art has appeared at galleries in Oakland and at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ. He began his career dancing with Merce Cunningham, is a Founding Co-Director of Performance Space 122 and is currently Co-Artistic Director of Garrett + Moulton Productions in San Francisco.